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UNIVERSITY
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Volume 81 • Number 7
Students fast and
pray for Darfur
By Stephanie Schmidt
Jusl when everyone thought
that 8 a.m. was early for a class
time, a group of Belhel students
voluntarily met in the Benson
Great Hall Lobby at 8 a.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 6 for a time of
community prayer, followed by
a day of individual prayer and
fasting.
This time of prayer was
headed up by a Bethel organization called World Challenge.
Kelly McEwen, a Bethel junior,
describes World Challenge as "a
group of students trying to raise
awareness on campus for different world issues."
The particular world issue
being prayed and fasted over last
Thursday was the occurrence
of massacres in Darfur, Sudan
(similar to those in Rwanda in
1994 which inspired the movie
Hotel Rwanda}. According to
Becca Fugate, a junior in World
Challenge who headed up that
morning's gathering, this was an
international day of fasting and
prayer.
"The whole point was to
fast for the day," said Fugate.
She noted that the purpose was
for students to be aware of and
pray for the situation in Darfur,
Sudan throughout the day. Students were encouraged to give
up food and luxuries for that
one day and to use the resulting
time and money to support the
people of Sudan.
McEwen, who is on the African sub-committee in World
Challenge, stated a similar purpose:
"1 came out to pray and
fast for Sudan and think about
all the people there," she said.
"[We] use whatever money we
would have spent on food and
luxuries today to give to the
people in Sudan."
Despite the early morning
hours and the frigid temperatures that moved the outdoor-intended meeting to an indoor location, over 25 students showed
up to show their support and to
pray for the victims of the Darfur massacres. Fugate said she
expected more students to be
fasting and praying through
out the day, even though there
weren't many at the morning
prayer gathering.
Students also prayed for the
country's leaders, for peace in
the country, and for a response
from America and the rest of the
world. Fugate said the prayers
even extended to other world
situations. "Il expanded to praying for peace in other countries,"
she said.
"I came out to
pray and fast
for Sudan and
think about
all the people
there."
-Kelly McEwen
While some of these students saw posters around
school and showed up simply
for prayer, many of the students were also a part of World
Challenge, which, according
to Fugate, is "a branch of campus ministries... [it deals with]
how students can connect with
world-wide things."
World Challenge is the organization that sponsored the
AIDS awareness campaign last
year,' and is open to all students.
"We meet during chapel
time on Tuesdays in the DC,"
McEwen said.
Faith Kroeker is the president of the organization, which
has many subcommittees that
raise awareness for different
parts of the world. Any student
who has a passion for bringing
attention to and raising awareness for events in other parts
of the world are encouraged to
show up to any meeting.
Bethel alumna competes in reality TV show
Convicted rapist reported
near Macalester
By Sarah DeWitt
Sexual abuse and rape is a
terrifically silent crime for the
mere fact that only aboul 16%
of the victims ever report to the
police. Unfortunately, college
students have made a great contribution to this low report rate,
because while rape has become
the most common violent crime
on American College campuses
today, fewer than 5% of these
crimes are actually reported
by college students. However,
the good news is that rape and
sexual assault has fallen by over
65% since 1993, and college
students are less susceptible to
violent crimes than the general
public. One in ihree women
have still been victims of sexual
assault since the age of 12; every minute 1.3 women are being
sexually assaulted; and people
who are most vulnerable to victimization are those who don't
expect it.
Wednesday Sept. 28, Bethel
issued a security alert about sexual predator Larry Pickney being
suspected of harassing studenis
at Macalister College, reminding us that we always need to be
aware that these incidents can
occur to anyone and we should
be alert of bur surroundings.
Continued on page two
By Cory Streeter
Who said Bethel couldn't
do reality? One former student
burst her Bethel bubble by stepping into uncharted territory:
Reality TV
2001 Bethel alumna Elizabeth Bransen of Park Ridge, 111.,
was a contestant along with her
father and two younger sisters
on "The Amazing Race: Family Edition." Putting a spin on
the eighth season of the CBS's
Emmy-winning show, "The
Amazing Race" turned the competition into a family feud. Ten
family members in teams of four
began the race for $ 1 million on
the show's premiere on Sept. 27,
and the Bransen family has continued to compete through the
second episode,
25-year-old Elizabeth Bransen was unable to comment
on any questions regarding the
race until its broadcast conclusion, but her life since leaving
Bethel has taken an obvious
turn toward adventure. The eldest sister Elizabeth teamed up
with her sisters, Lauren, 22, and
Lindsay, 20, under their father,
Walter, 51, for the 30,000-plus
mile joumey.
"The Amazing Race" normally involves travel to over
four or five continents in many
teams of two adults, but this season was tweaked to allow children as young as eight lo compete alongside their olher family
members and againsi teams of
potentially all-adult relatives.
According to Reality TV World,
the approximately 30,000-mile
race length is about half as long,
as a result of the inclusion of
children. Though teams once
traveled to multiple continents,
this race was spent mostly in
the continental United States.
It is rumored to not go outside
North and Central America.
CBS claimed selected locations
were "historically significant"
and "more family-friendly, less
crowded."
Beginning under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City in
episode one, the teams made
their way to Lancaster, Pa., the
oldest inland city in the United
States. The theme for the "Detour," the final task to complete
in order to finish the race segment, centered on the Amish
heritage of the city. The Detour
was either Build It or Buggy
It—build a functioning water-
mill or have two members of
the team pull the remaining two
in a buggy for 1.5 miles to the
finish. The Bransens chose to
construct the watermill and finished seventh out of ten teams.
The Brown family was eliminated for finishing last.
The second episode involved the teams traveling
through Washington, D.C, and
eventually ending in Middle-
burg, Va., in the area of famous
Revolutionary and Civil War
battlefields. The Detour this
time was to choose •either The
Heat of the Battle or the Heat of
the Night—transport five soldiers by stretcher off a live reen-
actmeni of a Civil War battle, or
fill twenty oil lanterns with fuel
and ignite them all. The Bran-
sens opted for the Heat of the
Battle, and finished sixth out of
the remaining nine teams. The
Rogers were eliminated this episode, ending their run for the
$1 million.
At the time of press, the
Bransens were still competing
toward the final stage, rumored
to be back near New York at Niagara Falls.
Elizabeth Bransen continued in life after Bethel by
achieving an advanced degree.
According to CBS, she recently
graduated from the University
of Illinois with a Masters in Social Work. Her sister Lauren
graduated from Hope College
in Michigan with a degree in
communications and business
management. The youngest
sister, Lindsay, is also attending
Hope College, majoring in social work. Their father, Walter,
works as a CFO for an Illinois
company.
"The Amazing Race: Family
Edition" airs Tuesday 8 p.m. on
CBS.
Sympiosium
continues to
challenge attendees
t
'^AjAm
'^____
- ■*■!,
'___
m$
jgl 4tfk •
"^*^
'
"'. £_gk p^|3 Wr '
■
Gulu Walk an opportunity to act
By Cara Lee
The death toll in the South
Asia earthquake is more than
40,000 men, women and children. Take that same number,
40,000, and make it just children. Picture, if you can, these
children walking 12 kilometers
(approximately 6 miles) a night
just to say alive.
Picture nothing; these
walking children are the reality
of northern Uganda.
For the past 19 years civil •
war has disrupted the lives of
the people. The children walk
every night out of a fear of abduction.
"The rebel army uses a
huge proportion of child soldiers because they make the
best soldiers. In many cases the
children arc forced to commit
atrocities against their own family or community so they cannot
return," Katy Ross said.
Ross '06, spent spring semester of her junior year studying abroad in Uganda. Ross
worked with Concern Worldwide, an organization involved
wilh sanitation and hygiene in
northern Uganda.
"One thing that has driven
my interest in Uganda is the stories of the people in the camps
who asked me to nol forget
them," Ross said.
"They influence how 1 live
now, which is partly why I'm
organizing the Gulu Walk," she
said.
Ross is the subcommittee
chair of African issues for World
Challenge at Bethel and she volunteered to organize the city of
Minneapolis' Gulu Walk.
The Gulu Walk is an opportunity for participants to raise
awareness about the conditions
in Uganda, to physically act
on the desire to do something
about the situation and to move
toward political action,
41 cities across Asia, Europe, Africa and North America
are participating in this solidarity walk to raise awareness of
the current conditions of northern Uganda. The walk consists
of a 3.5 mile loop beginning and
ending al Eliot Park in Minneapolis.
"We the citizens of the most powerful
country, which is a democracy, have a
responsibility to act on injustice and
make our voice heard."
-Katy Ross
Bethel students are most
likely familiar with the yellow
posters around campus, but organizers of the Gulu Walk are
hoping that familiarity is just
the beginning.
"We the citizens of the most
powerful country, which is a democracy, have a responsibility
to act on injustice and make our
voice heard," Ross said.
"As Christians we are called
to be a reflection of God's heart
for the world, and 1 can think
of no better reflection than to
stand for the vulnerable," Ross
said.
Minneapolis' Gulu Walk
will take place on Oct. 22 at 1
p.m. at Eliot Park by the Metro-
dome. Bethel will be providing
shuttles to the event, to prevent
transportation from being an issue. Walkers are encouraged to
wear orange, the official color of
the Gulu Walk.
Participants are also encouraged to make donations or
take pledges for their walk. All
proceeds go directly to Uganda's
non-govemmental organizations who are working with the
people displaced by the war.
If you would like more
infonnation on the situation,
there will be a showing of the
documentary Invisible Children
Monday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. in
CC312.
!

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UNIVERSITY
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Volume 81 • Number 7
Students fast and
pray for Darfur
By Stephanie Schmidt
Jusl when everyone thought
that 8 a.m. was early for a class
time, a group of Belhel students
voluntarily met in the Benson
Great Hall Lobby at 8 a.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 6 for a time of
community prayer, followed by
a day of individual prayer and
fasting.
This time of prayer was
headed up by a Bethel organization called World Challenge.
Kelly McEwen, a Bethel junior,
describes World Challenge as "a
group of students trying to raise
awareness on campus for different world issues."
The particular world issue
being prayed and fasted over last
Thursday was the occurrence
of massacres in Darfur, Sudan
(similar to those in Rwanda in
1994 which inspired the movie
Hotel Rwanda}. According to
Becca Fugate, a junior in World
Challenge who headed up that
morning's gathering, this was an
international day of fasting and
prayer.
"The whole point was to
fast for the day," said Fugate.
She noted that the purpose was
for students to be aware of and
pray for the situation in Darfur,
Sudan throughout the day. Students were encouraged to give
up food and luxuries for that
one day and to use the resulting
time and money to support the
people of Sudan.
McEwen, who is on the African sub-committee in World
Challenge, stated a similar purpose:
"1 came out to pray and
fast for Sudan and think about
all the people there," she said.
"[We] use whatever money we
would have spent on food and
luxuries today to give to the
people in Sudan."
Despite the early morning
hours and the frigid temperatures that moved the outdoor-intended meeting to an indoor location, over 25 students showed
up to show their support and to
pray for the victims of the Darfur massacres. Fugate said she
expected more students to be
fasting and praying through
out the day, even though there
weren't many at the morning
prayer gathering.
Students also prayed for the
country's leaders, for peace in
the country, and for a response
from America and the rest of the
world. Fugate said the prayers
even extended to other world
situations. "Il expanded to praying for peace in other countries,"
she said.
"I came out to
pray and fast
for Sudan and
think about
all the people
there."
-Kelly McEwen
While some of these students saw posters around
school and showed up simply
for prayer, many of the students were also a part of World
Challenge, which, according
to Fugate, is "a branch of campus ministries... [it deals with]
how students can connect with
world-wide things."
World Challenge is the organization that sponsored the
AIDS awareness campaign last
year,' and is open to all students.
"We meet during chapel
time on Tuesdays in the DC,"
McEwen said.
Faith Kroeker is the president of the organization, which
has many subcommittees that
raise awareness for different
parts of the world. Any student
who has a passion for bringing
attention to and raising awareness for events in other parts
of the world are encouraged to
show up to any meeting.
Bethel alumna competes in reality TV show
Convicted rapist reported
near Macalester
By Sarah DeWitt
Sexual abuse and rape is a
terrifically silent crime for the
mere fact that only aboul 16%
of the victims ever report to the
police. Unfortunately, college
students have made a great contribution to this low report rate,
because while rape has become
the most common violent crime
on American College campuses
today, fewer than 5% of these
crimes are actually reported
by college students. However,
the good news is that rape and
sexual assault has fallen by over
65% since 1993, and college
students are less susceptible to
violent crimes than the general
public. One in ihree women
have still been victims of sexual
assault since the age of 12; every minute 1.3 women are being
sexually assaulted; and people
who are most vulnerable to victimization are those who don't
expect it.
Wednesday Sept. 28, Bethel
issued a security alert about sexual predator Larry Pickney being
suspected of harassing studenis
at Macalister College, reminding us that we always need to be
aware that these incidents can
occur to anyone and we should
be alert of bur surroundings.
Continued on page two
By Cory Streeter
Who said Bethel couldn't
do reality? One former student
burst her Bethel bubble by stepping into uncharted territory:
Reality TV
2001 Bethel alumna Elizabeth Bransen of Park Ridge, 111.,
was a contestant along with her
father and two younger sisters
on "The Amazing Race: Family Edition." Putting a spin on
the eighth season of the CBS's
Emmy-winning show, "The
Amazing Race" turned the competition into a family feud. Ten
family members in teams of four
began the race for $ 1 million on
the show's premiere on Sept. 27,
and the Bransen family has continued to compete through the
second episode,
25-year-old Elizabeth Bransen was unable to comment
on any questions regarding the
race until its broadcast conclusion, but her life since leaving
Bethel has taken an obvious
turn toward adventure. The eldest sister Elizabeth teamed up
with her sisters, Lauren, 22, and
Lindsay, 20, under their father,
Walter, 51, for the 30,000-plus
mile joumey.
"The Amazing Race" normally involves travel to over
four or five continents in many
teams of two adults, but this season was tweaked to allow children as young as eight lo compete alongside their olher family
members and againsi teams of
potentially all-adult relatives.
According to Reality TV World,
the approximately 30,000-mile
race length is about half as long,
as a result of the inclusion of
children. Though teams once
traveled to multiple continents,
this race was spent mostly in
the continental United States.
It is rumored to not go outside
North and Central America.
CBS claimed selected locations
were "historically significant"
and "more family-friendly, less
crowded."
Beginning under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City in
episode one, the teams made
their way to Lancaster, Pa., the
oldest inland city in the United
States. The theme for the "Detour," the final task to complete
in order to finish the race segment, centered on the Amish
heritage of the city. The Detour
was either Build It or Buggy
It—build a functioning water-
mill or have two members of
the team pull the remaining two
in a buggy for 1.5 miles to the
finish. The Bransens chose to
construct the watermill and finished seventh out of ten teams.
The Brown family was eliminated for finishing last.
The second episode involved the teams traveling
through Washington, D.C, and
eventually ending in Middle-
burg, Va., in the area of famous
Revolutionary and Civil War
battlefields. The Detour this
time was to choose •either The
Heat of the Battle or the Heat of
the Night—transport five soldiers by stretcher off a live reen-
actmeni of a Civil War battle, or
fill twenty oil lanterns with fuel
and ignite them all. The Bran-
sens opted for the Heat of the
Battle, and finished sixth out of
the remaining nine teams. The
Rogers were eliminated this episode, ending their run for the
$1 million.
At the time of press, the
Bransens were still competing
toward the final stage, rumored
to be back near New York at Niagara Falls.
Elizabeth Bransen continued in life after Bethel by
achieving an advanced degree.
According to CBS, she recently
graduated from the University
of Illinois with a Masters in Social Work. Her sister Lauren
graduated from Hope College
in Michigan with a degree in
communications and business
management. The youngest
sister, Lindsay, is also attending
Hope College, majoring in social work. Their father, Walter,
works as a CFO for an Illinois
company.
"The Amazing Race: Family
Edition" airs Tuesday 8 p.m. on
CBS.
Sympiosium
continues to
challenge attendees
t
'^AjAm
'^____
- ■*■!,
'___
m$
jgl 4tfk •
"^*^
'
"'. £_gk p^|3 Wr '
■
Gulu Walk an opportunity to act
By Cara Lee
The death toll in the South
Asia earthquake is more than
40,000 men, women and children. Take that same number,
40,000, and make it just children. Picture, if you can, these
children walking 12 kilometers
(approximately 6 miles) a night
just to say alive.
Picture nothing; these
walking children are the reality
of northern Uganda.
For the past 19 years civil •
war has disrupted the lives of
the people. The children walk
every night out of a fear of abduction.
"The rebel army uses a
huge proportion of child soldiers because they make the
best soldiers. In many cases the
children arc forced to commit
atrocities against their own family or community so they cannot
return," Katy Ross said.
Ross '06, spent spring semester of her junior year studying abroad in Uganda. Ross
worked with Concern Worldwide, an organization involved
wilh sanitation and hygiene in
northern Uganda.
"One thing that has driven
my interest in Uganda is the stories of the people in the camps
who asked me to nol forget
them," Ross said.
"They influence how 1 live
now, which is partly why I'm
organizing the Gulu Walk," she
said.
Ross is the subcommittee
chair of African issues for World
Challenge at Bethel and she volunteered to organize the city of
Minneapolis' Gulu Walk.
The Gulu Walk is an opportunity for participants to raise
awareness about the conditions
in Uganda, to physically act
on the desire to do something
about the situation and to move
toward political action,
41 cities across Asia, Europe, Africa and North America
are participating in this solidarity walk to raise awareness of
the current conditions of northern Uganda. The walk consists
of a 3.5 mile loop beginning and
ending al Eliot Park in Minneapolis.
"We the citizens of the most powerful
country, which is a democracy, have a
responsibility to act on injustice and
make our voice heard."
-Katy Ross
Bethel students are most
likely familiar with the yellow
posters around campus, but organizers of the Gulu Walk are
hoping that familiarity is just
the beginning.
"We the citizens of the most
powerful country, which is a democracy, have a responsibility
to act on injustice and make our
voice heard," Ross said.
"As Christians we are called
to be a reflection of God's heart
for the world, and 1 can think
of no better reflection than to
stand for the vulnerable," Ross
said.
Minneapolis' Gulu Walk
will take place on Oct. 22 at 1
p.m. at Eliot Park by the Metro-
dome. Bethel will be providing
shuttles to the event, to prevent
transportation from being an issue. Walkers are encouraged to
wear orange, the official color of
the Gulu Walk.
Participants are also encouraged to make donations or
take pledges for their walk. All
proceeds go directly to Uganda's
non-govemmental organizations who are working with the
people displaced by the war.
If you would like more
infonnation on the situation,
there will be a showing of the
documentary Invisible Children
Monday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. in
CC312.
!